Section: US & Canada
Ex-Pompeo adviser quit after “puzzling and baffling” lack of support for ambassador
Michael McKinley testified he resigned his post after a State Department officials failed to come to the defense of the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine …read more Source::...
Ousted Ukraine ambassador Yovanovitch says she was told to tweet praise of Trump to save her job
Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators last month that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told her she should tweet out support or praise for President Donald Trump if she wanted to save her job, according to a transcript of her testimony made public Monday. The three...
Fox News Host Steve Hilton Accuses Colleague Marie Harf of ‘Covering Up the Corruption’ of Bidens
Daytime talk show Outnumbered became extremely tense, heated, and personal on Monday when Fox News host at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here …read more Source:: The Daily...
Impeachment records: Diplomat Marie Yovanovitch, adviser P. Michael McKinley say State Dept. backed Trump
House Democrats leading the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump released transcripts Monday detailing two private depositions — from the former ambassador to Ukraine and a State Department adviser. …read more Source:: United Press...
Volker And Sondland Hearing Transcripts Will Be Released Tomorrow, Schiff Says
House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) told reporters on Monday that transcripts of the depositions with Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland and former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker will be released on Tuesday. Commenting on the deposition transcripts of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and top State...
The Biggest Reveals From Ambassador Yovanovitch’s Impeachment Testimony
In newly released testimony, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine told Congress about how she first learned of the smears being peddled against her and how her requests that the State Department publicly back her up went unfulfilled. Marie Yovanovitch is a crucial witness for House Democrats as they continue their impeachment probe into Rudy...
Highlights From Newly Released Impeachment Testimony Of Ex-Pompeo Aide
In testimony before the House impeachment inquiry last month, a former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo detailed the behind-the-scenes diplomatic reaction to President Donald Trump’s insults of the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Longtime diplomat Michael McKinley, the former Pompeo adviser, also described concerns within...
Keep American Skies Open to Russia
If you’re a nuclear superpower and you’re trying to convince the only other nuclear superpower that you’re not about to attack them, what can you do to build that trust? This was one key problem of the early Cold War, when both the United States and the Soviet Union were in effect learning what nuclear deterrence, competition,...
Former Ukraine Ambassador Says She Was Told To ‘Watch Her Back’
Marie Yovanovitch said she found out from Ukrainian officials that Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and his now-arrested associates were targeting her and wanted a different person on the job.(Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP) …read more Source::...
Yovanovitch says she felt threatened by Trump raising her on call with Ukraine
Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators that she felt shocked and threatened when she saw that President Trump had criticized her during a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president…. …read more Source:: The...
